November 07, 2006
The end of the Road. The beginning of a new era?
Sorry about my tardiness in writing my final report from the road. Needless to say, it's been difficult to post from the BlackBerry and was damn near impossible while barrelling down 287.
After breakfast, I dropped Hank and Katy off at the airport so they could make an appearance in Crowley. The plan was for me to drive from Amarillo to Fort Worth to meet them around 1:30 then on to Austin for the GOTV rally at UT. The time? Around 9:15... you already see where this is going, no?
Needless to say, I did NOT get to Fort Worth on time due to the diligent work of the Texas law enforcement and their desire to keep motorists safe. By safe, I mean driving the speed limit, something that has always been problematic for me. Oh, come on! How the hell are you supposed to be able to drive 368 miles in four hours WITHOUT going 90? Or 100? What do they expect me to do, fly? I thought about that but the suburban had to get back to Fort Worth so we drew straws. Guess which one I picked.
Thanks to one sherrif's deputy and one state trooper, I was whipped enough to drive within what the trooper told me was the 'flex speed', 4-6 miles over the limit. Sure, I went a little faster at times but for the most part I plodded along with everyone else. For a long, LONG time. I made it around 2:45 and by then it was clear that there was no way we could make it to Austin on time. So, Hank drove Katy and I to Love and we seperated; Katy and I back to Austin and Hank to Troop so he could get some much deserved rest and pick up his family for E-Day in Austin.
As we landed we got a call from Hank about a conservative radio show interview Katy set up with a station in San Antonio. Apparently, one of the callers said they were going to vote straight R but had to change it to vote for Hank. Then the host of the program said HE was going to vote for Hank. Just another example of cross-party support for the best candidate in the race for Agriculture Commissioner.
More often than not, we fail to even try to fight the Republican's on their turf. That has to stop if for no other reason than that just hearing us will change some minds.
Finally, there's a great piece up on the Chronicle website... here's an except
In many ways, the political novice from Troup with a small fraction of the funding of Republican opponent Sen. Todd Staples, is completely out of his element in the smoothly oiled campaign tour this week.In other ways he's just the country cousin of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bell. He seems made for this political stuff, earning with each passionate, plain-spoken speech an unofficial reputation as a kind of poet politico of the pines.
Gilbert is proud to say he's not a politician and is running for agriculture commissioner to take the politics out of a regulatory agency that's become an "eight-year training program" for aspiring governors.
It's been a long day and long campaign. I'm going to bed. God willing, by the time I go to bed tomorrow night Texans will have elected Hank to be their next Commissioner of Agriculture!
Posted by mcblogger at November 7, 2006 01:10 AM
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